[lbo-talk] letter to editor

[Ricky Page]

I think Wojtek is right again the fact is the American Left has been a non-issue 
since 1919, with the SPA use of police to split the left (Communist) from the 
Party. Until we American leftist return to the sense of leftist unity, and 
re-group, we will be irrelevant. As for the 1960's, the fact that the US was the 
leading Imperialist power, it could not afford to alianate the emerging "Third 
World" by using police-state tactics (as it did on previous civil right s and 
labor movement). Nonetheless, the history of the past twenty-years, with its 
neo-liberalism and regression of social rights supports my and Wojeks arguement.

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From: Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 2:36:12 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] letter to editor

Eric: "our "invitation to the table" remark indicates you think it is all a
matter of citizenship, recognition, and propriety."

[WS:] Where did I say that?  My point was that it is the power struggle, but
not the kind that involves only a bunch of yahoos smashing windows with
sticks and stones.

Wojtek

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Eric, you seem to be having a rather simplistic view of the matter.
>
> You and Ricky Page aver that there is progress *only* because US
> elites want it, while my sarcastic response tried to imply that it
> might be more complicated than that. But somehow I'm the one with a
> simplistic view?
>
> As for the rest, I don't think we could discuss this productively.
> Your "invitation to the table" remark indicates you think it is all a
> matter of citizenship, recognition, and propriety. I think those are
> at best secondary factors. We would just be talking past one another.
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